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2ND LEAD (UPDATE) Sinhala villagers block ICRC food convoy to Muttur [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 11:09 GMT] A food convoy led by the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) Friday morning from Trincomalee town to Muttur to supply food materials to civilians displaced due to the fighting between SLA and LTTE was stopped at Kantalai by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on Friday afternoon around 1 p.m. The SLA refused permission for the convoy to proceed along Kantalai-Allai road to Muttur citing security reasons, ICRC sources in Colombo said. The convoy, comprising 16 trucks with food materials, four ICRC vehicles and two ambulances, is now stranded in Kantalai town…

Arrangements underway for civilian movement from Muttur - LTTE [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 04:52 GMT] The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Friday morning said their cadres were making arrangements to safely transport all civilians out of the Muttur town to remote locations as Sri Lanka Army shells continued to hit civilian refuges in the town. The LTTE has urged the ICRC and other humanitarian agencies to enable humanitarian assistance to the displaced people. "We are making necessary arrangements to move civilians from Muttur to safer locations via Kiliveddy," said Irasiah Ilanthirayan, the military spokesman of the Liberation Tigers. At least 22 civ…

Electricity, telephone service to Muttur cut off [TamilNet, August 03, 2006 17:44 GMT] The Sri Lankan government has cut off the supply of electricity to Muttur town and other villages in the Muttur division since the fighting broke out between the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). From Thursday noon telephone service to Muttur town has also been cut off, Muttur civilians arrived in Trincomalee Thursday evening with injured civilians said. Telephone service has been cut off after the artillery attack on Muttur Arabic College and Thoppur Al-Noor Mahavidiyalayam which resulted in the deaths of twenty two Muslim civilians sought refuge…

LTTE to hand over bodies of 40 SLA troopers [TamilNet, August 03, 2006 14:03 GMT] The Liberation Tigers were making arrangements to hand over bodies of forty Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers killed in Muttur fight, LTTE's military spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan said. The LTTE would be handing over the bodies through the ICRC. "Twelve Tiger fighters have been killed during the last 48 hours fighting in Muttur area thwarting the Lankan navy and army attempts to land their troops," he said. The Tiger forces were led by LTTE's Special Commander Sornam and Trincomalee LTTE Commander Arivu, according to Ilanthirayan. "A Sri Lanka Navy boat was sunk in the clash wi…

SLA artillery fire kills further 12 Muslim civilians in school refuge [TamilNet, August 03, 2006 13:20 GMT] Twelve Muslim villagers in Al Nuriah Muslim school in Thoppur were killed Thursday evening when Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired artillery shells hit the school, civilian sources in Thoppur said. At least five persons were wounded. Meanwhile, Police sources in Trincomalee said the policemen entrapped in Muttur town were evacuated to Trincomalee. One policeman was killed and fourteen policemen were wounded, according to initial reports. Six wounded policemen were airlifted to Colombo. The policemen had sought refuge inside the bunkers at the Police station in Mu…

, இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்களுக்கான மனிதாபிமான உதவிகளை வழங்குவது தொடர்பாக திருகோணமலை மாவட்ட அரசியல்துறைப் பொறுப்பாளர் சி.எழிலன் விடுதலைப் புலிகளின் ஐ.நா நிறுவனங்களுக்கான இணைப்பாளர் பாவரசன் ஆகியோர் நடவடிக்கை மேற்கொண்டு வருகின்றனர். Tigers discuss humanitarian measures in Muttur Military Spokesperson of the Tigers , Mr. Irasaiah Ilanthirayan (Marshall) [TamilNet, August 03, 2006 11:32 GMT] Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Trincomalee District Politicah Head S. Elilan and the LTTE's Liason officer for UN and NGO affairs, were engaged in discussing humanitarian measures to releave the civilian population that has taken refuge in Mosques and Churc…

"Hundreds of Tigers" in Muttur - residents [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 19:18 GMT] Intense fighting is underway in Muttur in Trincomalee district as hundreds of heavily armed LTTE cadres who have taken control of the town centre laid siege to four Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camps on its periphery, residents said Wednesday evening. An effort by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) to land reinforcements on Muttur jetty was routed by LTTE fighters battling SLN troops at one end, reports said. Sri Lanka’s military insisted however that the Army was in control of the town and that the ‘desperate’ LTTE was retreating before its counter-attack. Continuing a dawn offensive out of the Samp…

5th LEAD Tigers overrun four SLA camps in Trincomalee, enter Muttur [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 02:35 GMT] Fighting formations of the Liberation Tigers have overrun four key locations in Trincomalee district after fierce artillery shelling since 2:00 a.m. Wednesday. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camps in Kaddaiparichchan, Palathoppu, Pachchanoor and Mahindapura have been overrun, civilian sources said. Heavily armed LTTE fighters were seen entering Muttur town. Military sources in Colombo remained tightlipped and declined to comment on the ground situation. Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets continued to bomb LTTE controlled Sampoor area. Fierce fighting is also reporte…

Raising Tiger flag not illegal in US - Embassy [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 03:00 GMT] Staff at Sri Lanka state-run daily in Colombo, Daily News, were given a civic lesson when they confronted US Embassy's press officer, Evan Owen, on the legality of American Tamils hoisting the Tamileelam flag in a New York sports festival, and diaspora parents teaching their offsprings Tamil. The press officer responded that hoisting of the Tiger flag had not breached US law, and that "the right to assemble and freedom of speech is upheld," by their [uS] constitution, the Daily news reported. "Inquired about the Sunday Tamil schools and the matter that the curricular for these …

Claymore blast in Mannar kills SLA soldier, injures another [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 09:27 GMT] A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldier was killed and another injured in a claymore mine attack on troops engaged road clearing operation at Periyaneelansenai along Uyilankulam-Adamban Old Road, around 7.30 a.m., Wednesday. Following the explosion unidentified men in lying ambush fired at soldiers, police in the northwestern town said. The body of the dead soldier, Meegedera Pushpakumara Ariaysena, 23, of Matale, was handed over to Mannar general hospital. Mr.T.J.Pirapaharan, Additional Mannar Magistrate inspected the body and ordered the hospital authorities to hand …

Attack on SLA supply bases defensive - Ilanthirayan [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 06:53 GMT] Liberation Tigers' Military Spokesman, I. Ilanthirayan, said Wednesday that the artillery attack on Trincomalee naval base, providing rear support to Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive operation towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled territory down south in Trincomalee, the clash in the seas off Pulmoddai, and the attacks on SLA camps located along the supply route A15 from Muttur to Mavil Aaru offensive site, were defensive attacks that aimed at curbing the artillery attacks towards LTTE controlled villages and aimed at blocking troop movement and supply to t…

Military offensive 'disrupted deal with LTTE’ [TamilNet, August 01, 2006 21:42 GMT] Sri Lankan military’s offensive in Trincomalee disrupted an agreement which had been reached with the Liberation Tigers to open the closed irrigation canal at Mavil Aaru, the Daily Mirror quoted the Chief Priest of a local Buddhist temple as saying. The ongoing confrontation which has claimed scores of lives could have been avoided, the venerable Saranakeerthi Serunuwera Thera also said. His comments comes days after the chief international truce monitor criticized the Sri Lankan government for launching airstrikes near where he was negotiating with local LTTE leaders to defuse the…

LTTE cadres attack passenger vessel carrying 854 unarmed soldiers, successfully retaliated Munza Mushtaq in Colombo, August 1, 2006, 5.10 p.m.. The LTTE today afternoon fired mortar and artillery shells targeting a passenger vessel carrying 854 unarmed soldiers from Kankasanthurai, Trincomalee while she was entering the Trincomalee Harbour. The naval troops successfully retaliated the terrorist attack and brought the passenger vessel and the unarmed security forces personnel unharmed. Three boats were destroyed in the process. The incident occurred at around 2.15 p.m. Tigers failed in a similar type of attack when they targeted the passenger vessel Pearl Crui…

Youth's decapitated body found in Jaffna [TamilNet, August 01, 2006 16:05 GMT] Siruppiddi petrol station owner, Visvalingam Kauroopan, 24, from Karanavai, missing since Sunday, was found slain with his throat cut and his headless body dumped in the disused Siruppiddi Kannaki Amman temple festival-pool Monday, sources from Jaffna said. Mallakam magistrate Ms Sarojini Ilangovan who visited the crime site directed that his body be released to his relatives. Mr Kauroopan left the petrol station for lunch at 3 p.m. Sunday when he went missing. His relatives have registered complaints with the Jaffna Human Rights Commission (HRC) that the Sr…

SLN ship under atack off Pulmoddai coast [TamilNet, August 01, 2006 15:13 GMT] The Jetliner ship which escaped in Trincomalee attack Tuesday afternoon with about eight hundred SLA soldiers has come under attack again in the Pulmoddai sea bound for north from six in the evening Tuesday, military sources said. Kfir jets have gone to the area in support of the ship. Villagers of Kokilai, Pulmoddai and other areas close to the Pulmoddai Sea are fleeing from their houses.

Foreign Minister: Sweden also to pull peace monitors from Sri Lanka by Sept. 1 By KATARINA KRATOVAC AP STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Sweden decided Tuesday to pull out its 15-strong cease-fire monitoring team from Sri Lanka, joining Finland and Denmark who last week announced similar moves. Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson told Swedish radio he saw no other option but for the Swedish observers to leave the island, where fighting between government troops and separatist Tamils has escalated. The European Union in May designated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, a terrorist group, prompting the rebels to reject the presence of observers from EU m…

Top Tamil Tiger says cease-fire with Sri Lanka dead The Associated Press Published: July 31, 2006 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka A regional Tamil Tiger leader said Monday that the 4-year-old cease-fire with Sri Lanka's government was over, blaming a continuing army assault for aggravating the situation and forcing a return to civil war. Puratchi, a rebel leader in Trincomalee, said he was speaking for the entire Tamil Tiger rebel movement, but his comments could not immediately be confirmed by other rebel leaders. Top officials in the rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi were not available, said a person who answered the phone there. The European team monito…

SLA artillery attacks on Eachchilampattu villages continue [TamilNet, July 30, 2006 16:46 GMT] Major General Nanda Mallawarachchi, Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), remains at Kallaru army camp in the Serunuwara police division directing the military operation to capture Mavilaru area amid announcement by Defence Ministry spokesman and Minister Mr.Keheliya Rambukwella in Colombo Sunday that Sri Lankan troops are now about one km away from the controversial site, military sources in Colombo said. Sources in Serunuwara area said that there is a likelihood of troop movement from Kallaru to Mavilaru area early Monday morning. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has been …

Sri Lanka masses troops, bombardment continues [TamilNet, July 29, 2006 16:50 GMT] As thousands of Sri Lankan troops were moved to Kallaru junction ahead of a threatened offensive, Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets Saturday flew three bombing sorties over the Mavilaru area in Eachchilampathu division south of Trincomalee district. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) continued shelling of the area as Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army, Major General Nanda Mallawarachchi, visited Kallaru area. Sri Lankan military sources in Colombo said air strike is being continued in Mavilaru area to prepare the ground to move troops by land to re-open the closed sluice gate of Mavilar…

Bahrain fire kills 16 Indians --------------------------------- Sunday, July 30, 2006 (Manama): At least 16 Indians were killed and seven others injured when a major fire broke out in a building housing over 200 workers in Bahrain early today. The incident, apparently caused by a short circuit, took place in Gudabiya area when there were 218 people in the camp, mostly Indians. However, workers claimed that there were over 350 Indians in the building. The seven injured were being treated in a hospital for burns they received in the fire. Indian Ambassador to Bahrain Balakrishan Shetty said that most of the 16 workers killed were from Tamil …

SLAF, SLA attacks tantamount to declaration of war by Colombo, Elilan tells SLMM [TamilNet, July 29, 2006 16:49 GMT] Liberation Tigers Trincomalee District Political Head S. Elilan, in an urgent letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major General Ulf Henricsson Saturday evening said that artillery attacks by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and air strikes by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in the Liberation Tigers controlled territories in the Northeast, tantamounted to Declaration of War by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) against the LTTE. "It is now appropriate for the SLMM to declare publicly that the ceasefire agreement is not holding anymor…

Jayadevan forms Youth Organisation in UK Written by Administrator Wednesday, 26 July 2006 Infamous temple thief "Undiyalaan" Rajasingham Jayadevan has formed a Jayadevan Youth Organisation (JYO) in the United Kingdom, reliable sources said. Jayadevan Youth Organisation (JYO), headed by Bahi Jayadevan The organisation formed by Jayadevan aged 52 is headed by his eldest son Bahi, sources added. "The mission of the group is to follow on the footsteps of Jayadevan senior," said one source. Others disputed this claim and said that Jayadevan has a sinister motivation of involving the British-Tamil youths in anti-cultural activiti…

Contestants Still Leaving a Beauty Mark Miss Sri Lanka Jackie Fernandez sits by the pool at the Grand Wilshire Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles before starting a day of non-stop rehearsing. Fernandez enjoys U.S. nightlife at a club on Sunset Boulevard. The Miss Universe pageant, seen by some as a relic, comes to Los Angeles for the first time in 16 years. It's about more than just good looks. By Carla Hall, Times Staff Writer July 22, 2006 Eighty-six beautiful women occupied a curving stretch of tables in the atrium of South Coast Plaza, Sharpies at the ready, as young men with camera phones and mothers with daughters in hair bows snaked past t…

Media "war" on Tigers RADHIKA RAMASESHAN Jaffna, July 26: The Sri Lankan Army has launched a concerted propaganda onslaught against the Tamil Tigers. The army realises that while fighting the LTTE on land and sea is one aspect of the "war", the other is to create a level playing field for itself in the media, especially print and the Internet. The tech-savvy Tigers have widely-visited websites - such as tamilnet.com, svik.org and nitharsanam.com - that are choc-a-bloc with news of killings and assaults allegedly by the army and police. The joke in Colombo is that the media ministry often learns of strikes on the army through tamilnet.com and provi…

Bazeer declares Jihad on Tamil Editors Written by Administrator Wednesday, 26 July 2006 The leader of an Islamic group in the United Kingdom, and the alleged "political theorist" of Sri Lanka based Islamic extremist Jihad Group, Mr. SMM Bazeer has declared Jihad on TamilEditors.com via a paramilitary websites operated by temple thief "Undiyalaan" Rajasingham Jayadevan. Recently Bazeer was contacted by TamilEditors? Islamic Affairs Correspondent Mr. NK. Navaratnam for comments on violent demonstrations held by Muslims in Sri Lanka against the United Kingdom, United States and Israel. Bazeer while refusing to make direct comments to o…